Economic Depression in Italy. Abandoned Shops in the Main Street in Turin. Via Roma and Piazza San Carlo

This photos have been shot in the main shopping street of Turin, Italy, near Via Roma and S. Carlo Square. 

Until two years ago these shops were rented at ever increasing prices and tenants were fighting bidding wars to take them. Now you see only "for rent" advertisements everywhere and nobody seems interested.

If this is not an economic depression, then I do not know what it is.

A video shot in the same area is here: http://youtu.be/71rP-T9EfDo





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